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Salish Sea

Cerulean – Residency

3rd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Cerulean
Cerulean Confirmed in the catalog @80344
Jun 23 – Aug 29, 2022 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Aug 2022

297 m
Deepest dive
10:21
Longest dive
51
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
67
Deepest dive on record
297 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 23, 202287 m—75 m
Jun 23, 20226 m—5 m
Aug 29, 2022399 m—297 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 23, 2022 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Jun 23Jun 23, 2022 — seafloor 6 m (measured), deepest dive 5 m (modelled)Jun 23Aug 29, 2022 — seafloor 399 m (measured), deepest dive 297 m (modelled)Aug 29

Depth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.

Dives

297 m
Deepest dive
10:21
Longest dive
51
Dives
36 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
67
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300297 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (399 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

Depth, duration and recovery resolved into a single number for this session.

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Place

Where this happened · Aug 29, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
399 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
6 m – 399 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

Sighting records from Happywhale, published as occurrence data via GBIF. Individual records are licensed CC0 1.0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0, depending on the contributor.

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